US1387415A - Mirror-support - Google Patents

Description

'W. C. LEE.

MIRROR SUPPORT. APPLICAION mm mm. 30.1921.

1,387,415. g PatntedAug 9,1921.

T0 aflwfiom 7t c0nce7qi. 4 Be it known l1ZLWALKER C, LEE, a,.cit zen ofthe United States, residing=at Londonville, inthe county of Ashland,yand State of Ohio,, hasinvented certain nevv and useful Improvements in Mirror-Supports;and he (loeshereby deolare the followingto :be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as Will }enabl otflhe rs skilled in the art to which it :appertains to mal'and use the same.

*The present invention relates to improve:

ments in mirror supports and has or;an ob ject to. provide an improved support where by the-mirrOri =.carried thereby may be attached t0 various articles 'of furniture or fixtures in a house so that cOnvenient position with reference to the light may be obtained. r 7 Anotliex object of the invention lies in providing an improved support for a mirror having'a variety of adjustments for permitting of the location of the mirroiat vari ous angles both with respect to the vertical and horizontal to adapt the samenfor convenient use in shaving, .hair dressing and the like operations.

A further object of the invention resides in providing a simple 3ndinexpensve mir- & ror support adapted to be quickly and con veniently attached to and removed from furniture and fixtures and which permits of convenint adjustment of the mirrOn With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention Will be more fullydescribed hereinafter, and Will be more par- -ticularly pointed out in the claim appended hereto.

In th(adrawings, wherein likejsynibols refer'to like or corresponding parts"throngh out the several-views, V 7

Figure 1 is a side view of a mirrorahd a mirror support constructedaording to the present invention with the support in position as a stand foi holding the mirror on a fiat surface such as a bureau;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the mirror and support with the clamp, arranged on the back of a chair;

Fig. 3 is a front view of the support with the mirror partly broken away; and

' Fig. 41 is a plan view of the mirror support.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates the mirror which may be of a suitable round or ovalform and which is p1ovided"preferably\centrally of its b'ack with a post 2 having an 0pjening to:slidably receive a rod 3 which is clamped in the post by a set screw 4:, 0neend of the post is formed into. a curved arm*5 having:an en larged perforated head to receive thread ed boit 6 which alsb passes through a pr fora ion in a lug 7 whi'cb projectsfrom the 7 l'eg 8 of a y0ke or clamp piece 9. The lug 7 is :madein one piece with the oke projecting outwardly from the same, it;being curved in a mannerbest shown in Fig. 4: in order to carry it beyond itheflplaixeof'the side of said yoke. A butterfly nut 10 isthreaded on the bolt Z6 aiid acts t o. clamp the .curved arrn 5 tightly in adjusted position.

The yoke is also formed with aseoond leg 11 parallel and co perating with the first mentioned leg 8, this latter leg beingpreerably faced with a liner of felt 12 or other suitable 'material to =take against the fin 1 ished surfaces of furniture to avoid marring.

The leg 813arries' a clamping screw 13 having a head 14 adapted to take against the opposite surface of an article of furniture or fixtnre; and a thumb piece 15 for rotation.

In use, the mirror 1 may beadjusted longi tudinally on the rod3 so that when the rod is for instance in the position indicated in Fig. 2 the mirror may have a wide range of vertical adjustmenn Inthe saine way-the mirr0r is capable of horizontal adjnstment when the rod 3 is let down to a horizontal position. The post 2 and mirror 1 may also be adjusted angularly about the rod 3 at any point along the rod so'that two adjustments are had through the mirrors connection With such rod 3. Additionally the rod 3 swings about its fulcrum 6 and thus provides for inclining the mirror at various angles to the vertical.

It will be noted that inasmuch as the lug 7 projects laterally beyond the plane of the side of the clamp piece 9 ther0d 3 may rotate about the pivot point 6 so that it has a complete range of angular adjustment in *thlS respect through thefull' 360.

f e 16 for instance of a bureau; The lower L edge of the mirror 1 likewise rests upon the supporting surface 16 as is comnion witht nnrrors of th1-s genoral character.

By placing the mirror on the back 17 of a chair such as indicated in F igs. 2 and 3, the user may seat -himsolf upon the chair and be in a convenient position for shaving or a like operation. Of course the clamp 9 is adapted for connection to a variety of articles within a range of thicknesses encompassed by the legs 8 and 11 and the device is preferably oomparativelv light so that it niay be attached to a window shade. Of course the improved' support may be used to hold other articles such for instance as ash trays, sewing boxesor other devices and still permit of the same range of adjuscments.

It is obvions that various changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction and design ofthe above specifically described embodimont 'of this in vention without doparting from the spirittheroof, snob changes and modifications being restricted only by the scope' of the following daim; What is claimed is A device of the charater debribed comprising a mirror, a post extendingfroin the 'cured to a support, a curved 111g extnding from said clamp pieoe, means for piVotally holding said rod on said lug, andmeans Whereby the lng androd may be seoured togeth6r against relative movement, substah tially as desoribed.

VVALKER o. LEE.

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